octogénaire
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin octogenārius.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
octogénaire m or f by sense (plural octogénaires)
- octogenarian
- 1992, Amélie Nothomb, translated by Alison Anderson, Hygiène de l'assassin; republished as Hygiene and the Assassin, 2010:
- Quand il fut de notoriété publique que l’immense écrivain Prétextat Tach mourrait dans les deux mois, des journalistes du monde entier sollicitèrent des entretiens privés avec l’octogénaire.
- When the imminent demise of the great writer Pretextat Tach became public knowledge—he was given two months to live—journalists the world over requested private interviews with the eighty-year-old gentleman.
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Further reading[edit]
- “octogénaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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